Comments on: Name.com Lays Off 10% of Staff

By: Francois

Francois — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:39:32 +0000

Sign of times?

I don’t think:
A good example is in one hand we have a registar who spended 2 millions for party and in another a smaller one that is unable to generate enough business to keep his staff.

It’s simply an extremelly competitive sector, with incredibly low margins and where you have to do big volumes to survive.
And if it was not enough, domains holders don’t change of registrar easily… Except if the support fails, obligating to have a premium quality support that cost a lot of money and dedication.

A nightmare for new comers that does not have another business/source of revenue to finance the growing.

Courage Name.com!

By: RKB

RKB — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:27:12 +0000

Sign of time I guess.

Everyone is suffering in domain biz these days.

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Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:40:28 +0000

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